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Ending out December with a Potential Pattern Change


CoastalWx

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Ensembles especially the EURO ensembles show some return of the SE ridge as the trough retrogrades back towards the Midwest US.  Anyways it looks like there wants to be a phase between the northern stream and southern stream disturbances for the 29-30th event of the 18z GFS, again its the 18z GFS and has shown numerous flip flops over the last two days of runs regarding this system along with the EURO and GGEM.  SO we won't know until within 2 days from the event, maybe by Friday.

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18z GFS nothing but light SHRA, 18z Para GFS however is an advisory event for most of SNE starting at hour 117, much further north from the 12z run and regular GFS. Interesting that it moved the timing back to the 29th from the 30th. Para is also colder with the clipper/overunning stuff on the 28th allowing NNE to be snow there, so pretty much everyone wins verbatim.

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Trough the 2nd or so, the gfs crushes just about everything to the south. It does have some storms though, that is nice to see.

Looks like the para is all in for happy hour today. Has the 28-30 event. Then it has a pretty sizeable snow event for the area on the 1st and 2nd, another potential period of interest.

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The 18z op GFS is a horror show. Total shutout through D16. 

No support from anything else really(including it's upgraded cousin and it's ensembles) for that sort of pattern going forward(cold and dry), but if it did end up verifying, we'd be seeing a lot of these :cliff: I'm sure around here. 

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DT brings up some good points...however some of the features pointed out in the post look much less hostile today. It's a case of volatility in the models. Even the ensemble mean.

The EPO ridge reloads quite strong on today's ensembles (both EC and GEFS) rather than breaking down and weakening.

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Gfs will often lose storms in the mid range, only to bring tbem back later, so we should start seeing something of significance return for around 1/1 soon.

 

If we do go into a splt flow pattern the GFS actually has a tendency to overphase I find more often than not or at least end up bringing things too far north...its the one type of regime where the GFS sometimes ends up not being overly suppressed or progressive.  The timing of these disturbances is when the high is really making its way south and the tendency has been progressive this year so I don't know if I buy any of these yet.

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I think it's easy to blame a strongly negative QBO, but we've had high values before and we really don't know what numerical value or trend is good for blocking vs not good etc. We just know the physics behind it. No season is ever perhaps perfect with the QBO, it's values at 30mb and 50mb and then combined with the trend. The models have been differing with the tropical forcing location and that has created issues too. It's definitely gotten better over the last two days like Will said. You always have a good Pacific jet in an El Niño. I do see the points brought up, I guess I'm just not quick to blame it.

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I think it's easy to blame a strongly negative QBO, but we've had high values before and we really don't know what numerical value or trend is good for blocking vs not good etc. We just know the physics behind it. No season is ever perhaps perfect with the QBO, it's values at 30mb and 50mb and then combined with the trend. The models have been differing with the tropical forcing location and that has created issues too. It's definitely gotten better over the last two days like Will said. You always have a good Pacific jet in an El Niño. I do see the points brought up, I guess I'm just not quick to blame it.

 

I see there have only been 3 QBO seasons with it being this strongly negative...interestingly enough 2 of the 3 did a 180 from December to January while the other (74-75) did not change at all but 65-66 and 05-06 turned on a dime....I wonder if we'll see the same here.

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CHH does as well. 

 

I saw SPC has the GYX PWAT at 1.38"... different calculation? 

 

NSHARP calculates it at 1.38", but UWyo, UAlbany, UCAR/NCAR, and our own MAN/SIG levels plotted in Raob calculate 1.42".

 

I really don't know what the right answer is now. I'm guessing SPC will roll with their NSHARP for all sounding climatology stuff.

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